The Zurich Engagement

The Zurich Engagement

106 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 16, 1957

Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...

The Zurich Engagement

106 mins | Comedy, Romance | April 16, 1957

The Zurich Engagement
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Gyula-Trebitsch-Film
Original title Die Zürcher Verlobung
Directors Helmut Käutner
Writers Barbara Noack, Heinz Pauck, Helmut Käutner

Cast

Liselotte Pulver

as Juliane Thomas

Paul Hubschmid

as Dr. Jean Berner

Bernhard Wicki

as Paul Frank

Wolfgang Lukschy

as Jürgen Kolbe

Roland Kaiser

as Helge 'Pips' Frank

Rudolf Platte

as Edgar Stephan

Werner Finck

as Dr. Julius Weyer

Maria Sebaldt

as Grace

Sonja Ziemann

as Anna-Maria/Herself

Helmut Käutner

as Reporter

Erich Ponto

as Old Man

Anny Ondra

as Herself

Max Schmeling

as Himself